The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pune has seized over ₹31 lakh worth of food products suspected to be substandard, adulterated or prohibited; and filed criminal cases against 14 establishments during a two-day enforcement drive conducted across the Pune division; officials said on Wednesday.
Under the FDA’s ‘Safe food, safe drug, safe Maharashtra’ campaign, raids were conducted across Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Satara, Sangli, Solapur and Kolhapur districts on June 1 and 2; and food products suspected to be substandard, adulterated or prohibited were seized. Criminal cases were registered against vendors selling banned food products.
